Chapter 472. Song Edition
Ziyun Pavilion is an industry of the Lu family.
You know, Lu's family has a great career, and there are very few places like Ziyun Pavilion, because this is the venue where Mr. Lu actually gathers with his friends.
Generally, fine wine, fragrant tea, and even piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. The entire Ziyun Pavilion is an antique and joyful place.
But today is different, because in the Ziyun Pavilion, various versions of ancient rare books are neatly filled with. Lu Sanye, who was originally the owner of Ziyun Pavilion, only sat down outside, and there are three major collectors in Jinling City.
As the seller of this "book splitting" event, Lin Yize sat upright in the center, holding a brush, recording something.
Of course, there are some spectators in such a big scene, but these spectators are different from ordinary people. They are all carefully selected and selected from some collectors from Jinling City. And these collectors are also very skilled, not ordinary spectators, including professors, scholars, and even cultural celebrities. It can be said that this place is definitely a gathering of heroes.
Lin Yi's principle of "segment of books" is very simple. He and those scholars and professors, and some experts from the auction house, studied each other together. According to the market price and auction price - even lower than the auction price, each set of books and rare ancient books, the sale price is set.
Then Lin Yi displayed these books separately and distributed them to four major collectors, including Lu Sanye.
Of course, if you meet two collectors, or even four collectors, you will like a set of books, the principle is very simple. The higher the price will be. In order to save time and not hurt the harmony, the higher the price will be to let the competitors secretly write the highest price they are willing to pay. Compared with, whoever bids the higher the price will be given to whom they will do it at one time.
Therefore, Lin Yi's separation of books was very fast and did not stop due to the dispute between the four major collectors. However, this situation was quickly broken because what Lin Yi took out next was the Song version of the book!
In fact, when Lin Yi purchased this batch of ancient books before, he did not expect that there would be so many Song versions of books.
It is said that since the September 18th Incident in 1931, the Republic of China government planned the "Ancients Move South" action. By the end of the July-7 Incident in 1937, the most important part of the northern cultural relics and literature moved south to Nanjing-Shanghai-Wuhan-Changsha-Chongqing and other places, and finally to Taiwan Province, and never came back again. Inscriptions, oracle bones, bells and tripods, Qin and Han steles, Dunhuang relic volumes, Tang people's scriptures, Buddhist and Taoist scriptures, Song and Yuan ancient versions, "Yongle Encyclopedia", "Siku Quanshu", Gu Ci Huang's postscript, Xinhai Inks, all went to Baodao... As for the rare ancient books, there were countless rare books flowing to the treasure island, but like the Forbidden City Museum in Taiwan, there were only more than 200 Song versions, and more Song versions and rare books were all spread to the folk in Taiwan.
The collection of books collected by the Four Seas Gang was collected from the Taiwanese folk, and of course there are some relatively precious Song versions. Therefore, it is already shocking to be able to get so many rare ancient books from Taiwan. In addition, these Song versions really opened the eyes of experts, scholars, professors, and book collectors. Lin Yi was even more impressed by him. Awesome, this is, he has such great energy at a young age.
How could they know that Lin Yi has picked out these Song versions of books, and they are only a few of them. For Lin Yi, who is crazy about books, he would not easily divide these Song versions of books--but in order to prove the super high value of these ancient books to the four major collectors, he still reluctantly gave up and took out three sets... His heart was bleeding. The eyes of the four major collectors were shining.
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As the saying goes, Wang Po is boasting about selling melons, and Lin Yi is unwilling to be a "Wang Po", so he specially handed over the responsibility of introducing the "Song Edition Book" to a collector in Jinling who is also a professor of ancient relics.
The professor's surname is Liu Mingyu. His name is very delicate, but he looks very undespicable. His face is full of wrinkles, as old as woodcuts.
However, Professor Liu is very energetic, especially when he sees these three sets of Song versions, he feels even more excited. You should know that many collectors may not be able to see one in their lifetime, but Lin Yi takes three sets of it at one time.
Now Lin Yi asked him to help popularize the knowledge of "Song Edition Books". He felt that he was the only one who took the initiative and had no choice but to let everyone understand what Song Edition Books are and why Song Edition Books are so precious!
Professor Liu Yu stood up and bowed deeply to everyone with a scholarly style, and then said: "Why are Song Dynasty books so precious and charming? Simply put, there are only four points: they are old and close to the truth; they are exquisite in printing and carefully engraved; they are exquisite in paper, and they live for thousands of years; they are rare in the world and are extremely difficult; they are exquisite in writing and their characters are as big as money."
Everyone agreed deeply. After all, no one is a fledgling collector, and they still have a little knowledge of the Song version of the book.
Seeing everyone nodding happily, Professor Liu Yu felt it was very useful. In the past, he just taught some young boys to teach ancient books about this, but now facing a large group of experts, that kind of glory is hard to tell.
Thinking of this, Professor Liu felt that he had to come up with some "drug goods" and show his face here so that everyone could know the name of his expert professor, which was not a false reputation.
"As we all know, Zhang Yingwen of the Ming Dynasty said in "The Secret Collection of Qing Dynasty": Those who collect books are more valuable than Song Dynasty carvings, and most of them are fat and thin; those who are better have Ou Liu brushwork. The paper is bright and clean, and the ink is pure, making it cute.
Gao Lian said in his "Zunsheng Eight Notes" that the Song people's books were firm and soft, and the calligraphy and paintings were like writing... They used thin ink, and the fragrance of books was born, which gave rise to a strange smell. He also said: The Song Dynasty editions of books were better to line bamboo paper, while silkworm cocoon paper, swan white paper, and vine paper were beautiful, but not widely left. If you recite Song books, it would be bad.
In the "Minutes of Book Collection", Sun Congtian of the Qing Dynasty said: The engraved versions of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty have different paper ribs. The calligraphy and painting engravings are ancient and elegant. The ink color is light and the paper is white and moist, and the spreading scrolls are amazing. The so-called ink fragrance and moist paper is elegant and ancient, and the wonderfulness of the Song Dynasty engraving is over.
The so-called rare ancient books and books are: representative of art."
I have to say that Professor Liu's citation of scriptures really shocked everyone.
Look, what people say is very well-known, and the professor of ancient cultural relics is indeed well-known.
Speaking of the excitement, Professor Liu Yu began to talk endlessly, introducing some of the market trends of Song Dynasty books. These were well communicated with Lin Yi in advance. The purpose is very simple, which is to reflect the market value of these Song Dynasty books.
Professor Liu said: "As far as I know, there were several markets in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. For example, "Yang Chengzhai Yi Zhuan" records that this Song version is not easy to obtain, and a certain royal palace promised to buy this book for 200 gold. ... I saw Zhu Shuying's collection of books, and the first and the next postscript was written and the last one was worth 160 gold. On June 4, 33, I purchased a volume of the Song-engraved version of "Three Xie Poems" from Jiang's bookstore in the county, with two qian platinum on each page. Three days before the Double Ninth Festival in September 36, 30 taels of platinum were used to obtain 20 volumes of the Yuan Dynasty "Wu Libu Collection";
In the market trend of the Republic of China, Zhang Jinfu wrote "The Book of the Rare Books of the Ancient Books of Zhang's Classic Books" and recorded: "The Great Yi Cuiyan" ten volumes, written by the Song Fangwenyi, and the Song Dynasty book was acquired by Mr. Wang Wenjin from Shanghai. At that time, the market price was ten pieces of gold, and it was not sold secretly. Later, because the economy was ineffective, it was not allowed to give up and sell it at fifteen pieces of gold.
In the early days of the country, Huang Yongnian's "Song and Yuan Books on the Shanghai and Jiangsu Markets in the Early 1950s" records: Sun Shijun, the Shanghai Xiuwentang, received 30 or 40 volumes of "Zizhi Tongjian" in 1951, demanded 70 or 80 yuan for the Southern Song Dynasty Jianyang edition, which was collected by Qian Qianyi, collected by Jiang Biao, and written by Fei Nianci. He only bought one volume at work and paid 2 yuan.
In recent years, the late famous cultural relics connoisseur Mr. Qin Gong won the "Yitie" fragment from Shanghai for 400 yuan in 1993, and later auctioned again for 160,000 yuan in 2002. This became a legend in the contemporary book collection industry! In 1995, China Guardian sold a volume of the Song version of "Wenyuan Yinghua" fragment for 1.32 million yuan, which was the highest transaction record for auction of ancient books at that time. In 1996, the letter from Zeng Gong of the Song Dynasty sold for 4.29 million Hong Kong dollars, and the previous record was rewritten. "Biography of Song Books" Six Ten volumes, the 14th year of Shaoxing, Southern Song Dynasty, the 19th year of Meishan Jingdu, was compiled by the Ming Dynasty, and there were 20 volumes of four letters and twenty volumes. There were many seals. According to the seal collection, it can be seen that this book was first collected by Zhu Dashao, a famous copycat collector during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. This book was also a shelf of the famous copycat collector Wang Xiyuan's "Four Fourteen Book Buildings" in the late Qing Dynasty. It was also collected by Mr. Tian Tao, a famous contemporary copycat collector, versionologist, legalist, professor, and doctoral supervisor. It can be said to be circulated in an orderly manner. In June 2010, this book was sold at the spring auction of Beijing Debao Auction Company for 2.5 million yuan, which shows the current value of the Song version of the book."
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I have to say that Professor Liu Yu is really eloquent. Lin Yi did not invite the wrong person. After his words, the cherishing of the entire "Song version of the Book" made everyone "heat boiling". At this moment, everyone was staring at Lin Yi, waiting for him to reveal the Song version of the book that was about to be filmed.
Seeing everyone's eyes shining and drooling, Lin Yi knew that his move had completely aroused the four major collectors and people around him - who were eager for Song versions of the books, so what he had to do next was - wait for the price!
Slowly, Lin Yi started to take out the first Song version of the book...
Everyone stared at him with wide eyes.
What would it be?
What is the Song version?
What is it?
It has been almost a thousand years since the Song Dynasty?
The true appearance of the thousand-year-old ancient books is about to be revealed, so I am looking forward to it!
But when Lin Yi really took out the ancient book, everyone was stunned---
I looked at the ancient book stupidly, and looked at the three familiar words on the ancient book - "Hundred Family Names"!
Chapter completed!